Re: port forwarding without the shell

From: Rachan Malhotra (rMalhotra_at_freightdesk.com)
Date: 06/23/04

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To: Andrius Kurtinaitis <andrius.kurtinaitis@maf.vu.lt>

    The -N option allows you to only fwd ports and not do anything else. You
    can use it with -f to run your process in the background. I recently
    used Autossh (http://freshmeat.net/projects/autossh). It is a wrapper
    that allows you to create an always-alive tunnel in the background. You
    may want to see if you can it put to use.

    The drawback with -N is that it works from client side. I'd like to know
    if there is a server side option to restrict (some) users so that they
    can only connect to the ssh server for port fwding..

    cheers
    Rachan

    Andrius Kurtinaitis wrote:

    > Hello,
    >
    > is it possible to do "one-shot" port forwarding if I do not have any
    > valid shell on the ssh server, I can only use it for port forwarding.
    >
    > I read, that the normal way is to use -f and sleep 10. But I can not
    > sleep because I do not have any shell on the server side...
    >
    > Another question is - how can I start the port forwarding in the
    > background?
    > The problem is that openSSH requires a command if I want to use the
    > option -f ("Cannot fork into background without a command to
    > execute."). If I give some dummy command like "sleep 10", it sends it
    > and gets reply immediately (because there is no shell on the server)
    > and exits immediately...
    >
    > On the client side of ssh I use debian sarge or unstable
    > (OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 Debian 1:3.8.1p1-4, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004).
    > On the server side, I suspect, there is also some linux with openSSH,
    > maybe Red Hat.
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > Andrius Kurtinaitis
    >
    >
    >

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